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That is no different than saying Obama "may have" applied to college as a foreign student.
PolitiFact's take on it:
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The trustee who managed Romney’s holdings has publicly confirmed that Mitt and Ann Romney had "approximately $3 million" in assets in a Swiss bank account between 2003 and 2010, and the Romney campaign did not object to that characterization when we contacted them for this story.
Swiss bank accounts may make good fodder for campaign commercials and Jason Bourne movies, but there's nothing to indicate Romney did anything illegal or improper with the account.
You forget the about the biggest freeloaders: The United States Government.
Budget remains unbalanced.
Actually, I didn't.
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Originally Posted by CDusr
Govt is a corporation working in its own self interest. Not Joe taxpayer.
It does this mainly through everything it owns via investments. I would say govt is leeching off of people not the other way around. However, only "we the people" can change that.
Cut entitlements. As long as there is a free buffet, there will always be people who get in line for it. What should be cut?
1. social security age raised to age 72
2. medicare eligibility raised to age 70
3. EVERYONE on social security disability should be re-evaluated and stiffer requirements made
4. Make total social security payouts per year fixed, such that voter outrage will occur from increases in social security disability.
5. Restrict unemployment benefits to one year
6. Require public service work hours in exchange for foodstamps/welfare payments
7. end subsidized government housing projects
8. Restrict the aid to dependent children program to two children
9. Limit the amount of income that a single family on welfare disability can receive to 10% above the poverty line.
10. Eliminate "drug dependency" as an allowed criteria for disability
11. Limit the kinds of foods foodstamps can purchase (kind of like generic drugs). No products that are in the top 50% in cost per unit value relative to other items.
............... Just a start- there are too many bums in America and the democrats want to create more, such that they will have thier vote for life. Give a man a fish or teach him to fish?
"Build a man a fire and he'll be warm for the night. Set a man on fire and he'll be warm for the rest of his life".
Food stamps aren't working. We're throwing millions after millions of dollars on the food stamp program but liberal media reports more people in this country are starving to death than ever before. People sell their food stamps to buy liquor and drugs and so their children would go hungry except for the free meals they get at school.
Food stamps aren't working. It would be better to shut down the entire program and replace it with feeding centers. Since the schools now are the primary feeders of children with 2 free meals provided, just extend the cafeteria hours 2 hours and give them dinner too.
Around here the schools are considered feeding centers more than anything else, they allow the public to come eat at the school and also keep them open all summer. They could also give prepared meals out at the welfare clinics, the WIC clinics and so on but they should make sure the parents actually bring along the kids.
Sorry for the long delay...
I agree, food stamps are not working. However, I was responding to a call to curtail any and all aid in an attempt to make the "leeches" disappear - and approach that is simply short-sighted. Not to mention inhumane and one that will, not might, lead to a sharp increase in crime and/or riots.
In other words, I was not trying to defend the current system but simply pointing out the idiocy of the suggestion at hand.
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